Last Week

This past week was a busy one.  Here are the highlights:

Monday- The girls start school.  For family night Scott reviews fire safety and fire starting with the big girls.  They in turn teach it to the little girls.  We are all hunched over little mini fires gingerly and sometimes frantically adding fuel and/or blowing on them.  Then success!  Mary and Elena can now start their own campfires. The girls and I also get an assembly line going and make our easy refrigerator guava jam.

Tuesday- Relief Society (the women's organization from church) holds two mini workshops- one on journaling and one on self publishing family histories. The young women of the ward (congregation) join us.

Wednesday- We prep for a baby shower.  We pick up the group gift, the cake and the rest of the yummies.  The girls help prep/clean the house.

Thursday- These ladies keep calling and offering to help with the shower.  I take them up on their offers.  One friend comes to help prep the food.  We make bread and white chicken chili.  Another friend brings homemade mango salsa  with chips, another brings a layered Greek dip and pita chips.  There's also salad with craisins and macadamia nuts, and the cake. Nancy and I decide to forgo the usual shower games, just scrumptious food and good company.  At one point dancing and singing breaks out, over all the laughing and talking.  Scott is in the kitchen with Jesse and jokingly says, "Hear that?  And all without drugs or alcohol."

Friday- Our homeschool group holds it opening social.  We sit on a mat under an ulu (breadfruit) tree reading stories to each other and eating guavas and cookies.  The kids climb trees and play T-ball, then we go inside for dominoes and scholastic jeopardy.  We end with lunch and a tour around my friend's garden.  We make it back just in time for the girls to grab their swimsuits and head over to my nephew's pool party.

Saturday- Attend the temple with another nephew and his family, and then to a family breakfast to celebrate his first time going to the temple.

Sunday- We go to church and see our ward family.  Later we have breakfast for dinner with yet another nephew and his girlfriend.  We have waffles with stawberry/banana topping and guava syrup, also sausages and scrambled eggs.  Dinner is very quiet, except for lots of mmm-mmm noises. My niece comes over and we watch clips from her family reunion in Samoa. Wish I had been there, they're hilarious.

I didn't realize it until I took the time to think about it and write it down, but it's been a great week.